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> [“a spider and a fly i heard a spider and a fly arguing wait said the fly do not eat me i serve a great purpose in the world you will have to show me said the spider i scurry…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/a-spider-and-a-fly-i-heard-a-spider-and-a-fly-arguing-wait-said-the/)

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## More by Don Marquis

> [We pay for the mistakes of our ancestors, and it seems only fair that they should leave us the money to pay with.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/we-pay-for-the-mistakes-of-our-ancestors-and-it-seems-only-fair-that/)

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> [A certain alloy of expediency improves the gold of morality and makes it wear all the longer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/a-certain-alloy-of-expediency-improves-the-gold-of-morality-and-makes/)

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> [In all systems of theology the devil figures as a male person. Yes, it is women who keep the church going.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/in-all-systems-of-theology-the-devil-figures-as-a-male-person-yes-it/)

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> [“How often when they find a sage As sweet as Socrates or Plato They hand him hemlock for his wage Or bake him like…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/how-often-when-they-find-a-sage-as-sweet-as-socrates-or-plato-they/)

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> [Man cannot be uplifted; he must be seduced into virtue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/man-cannot-be-uplifted-he-must-be-seduced-into-virtue/)

[Don Marquis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/don-marquis/)

> [An optimist is the person who has never had any experience at all.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/an-optimist-is-the-person-who-has-never-had-any-experience-at-all/)

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> [For all of the creeds are false, and all of the creeds are true; And low at the shrines where my brothers bow, there…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/for-all-of-the-creeds-are-false-and-all-of-the-creeds-are-true-and/)

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> [“Vibrations are the key to everything. Atoms used to be, but atoms have quite gone out.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/vibrations-are-the-key-to-everything-atoms-used-to-be-but-atoms-have/)

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> [Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/honesty-is-a-good-thing-but-it-is-not-profitable-to-its-possessor/)

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> [I once heard the survivors of a colony of ants that had been partially obliterated by a cow's foot seriously debating the intention of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/i-once-heard-the-survivors-of-a-colony-of-ants-that-had-been/)

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> [He worked like hell in the country so he could live in the city, where he worked like hell so he could live in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/he-worked-like-hell-in-the-country-so-he-could-live-in-the-city-where/)

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> [An old stomach reforms more whiskey drinkers than a new resolve.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/an-old-stomach-reforms-more-whiskey-drinkers-than-a-new-resolve/)

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> [Did you ever notice that when a politician does get an idea he usually gets it all wrong.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/did-you-ever-notice-that-when-a-politician-does-get-an-idea-he/)

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> [Poetry is what Milton saw when he went blind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/poetry-is-what-milton-saw-when-he-went-blind/)

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> [Blood will tell, but often it tells too much.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/don-marquis/blood-will-tell-but-often-it-tells-too-much/)

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                        "text": "“a spider and a fly i heard a spider and a fly arguing wait said the fly do not eat me i serve a great purpose in the world you will have to show me said the spider i scurry around gutters and sewers and garbage cans said the fly and gather up the germs of typhoid influenza and pneumonia on my feet and wings then i carry these germs into households of men and give them diseases all the people who have lived the right sort of life recover from the diseases and the old soaks who have weakened their systems with liquor and iniquity succumb it is my mission to help rid the world of these wicked persons i am a vessel of righteousness scattering seeds of justice and serving the noblest uses it is true said the spider that you are more useful in a plodding material sort of way than i am but i do not serve the utilitarian deities i serve the gods of beauty look at the gossamer webs i weave they float in the sun like filaments of song if you get what i mean i do not work at anything i play all the time i am busy with the stuff of enchantment and the materials of fairyland my works transcend utility i am the artist a creator and demi god it is ridiculous to suppose that i should be denied the food i need in order to continue to create beauty i tell you plainly mister fly it is all damned nonsense for that food to rear up on its hind legs and say it should not be eaten you have convinced me said the fly say no more and shutting all his eyes he prepared himself for dinner and yet he said i could have made out a case for myself too if i had had a better line of talk of course you could said the spider clutching a sirloin from him but the end would have been just the same if neither of us had spoken at all boss i am afraid that what the spider said is true and it gives me to think furiously upon the futility of literature archy”",
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